With this function you can construct your weekly calendar of lessons, which is customized on the basis of the courses that you intend to follow.Warning: the personal schedule does not replace the presentation of the study plan! It's an informal tool that can help you better manage the organization of class attendance before the study plan presentation.After the study plan presentation we recommend you to use the Lecture timetable service in your Online Services.

To create your customized schedule follow these instructions:

Click on the "Enable" link to proceed. You will be asked your surname and first name in order to determine your alphabetic grouping.

To add or remove courses from your personal schedule, use the small icons which are found next to the courses:

addition of the course

removal of the course

selection of the section of the Laboratory of Architecture (Note: the effective area in which the teaching will be carried out will be determined after the presentation of the Study Plans)

The sidebar on the left displays the number of lessons included in schedule. There are also these commands:

View the schedule: allows the viewing of the weekly synoptic schedule

Delete the schedule: cancels the selections made

When you have finished the entry, you can print the calendar you have made.

Lectures
(a) Measurements
Measuring equipments and their characteristics. Measures of lengths and displacement. Measures of strain. Measures of force, torque and pressure. Measures of viscosity. Measures of temperature. Measures of contact area and pressure.
(b) Mechanics of living tissues (principles)
Composition and structure of living tissues. Classification of tissues. Mechanical properties of living tissues and response to stresses: elasticity, viscoelasticity, poroelasticity, anisotropy, mechanical strength and trauma, repair and remodelling.
(c) Experimental methods for tissue characterization Experimental issues. Preparation and storage of specimens. Fixtures for uniaxial and biaxial tests. Strain measurement of highly deformable tissues. Characterization of tissues and organs. Testing of collagenous tissues (tendons, ligaments, membranes). Testing of mineralized tissues (bone). Testing of biphasic tissues (cartilage). Viscosity of biological fluids. Methods for characterization of tissues in vivo.
Laboratory
(a) Test equipments
Testing machines: uniaxial and biaxial benches. Test procedures (tensile, compressive, bending, torsional, creep and relaxation, hardness tests). Calibration of transducers.
(b) Characterization of soft tissues
Storage and preparation of specimens. Force and strain measurements on compliant tissues. Tests on viscoelastic tissues. Uniaxial and biaxial tests on tendons and membranes. Parameter identification.
(c) Characterization of hard tissues
Storage and preparation of specimens. Force and strain measurements. Tensile, compressive and three point bending tests on bone specimens.
(d) Characterization of poroelastic tissues
Preparation of specimens. Compression, confined and unconfined creep tests on cartilage. Parameter identification.
To complement the practical lab activities and to stimulate active learning, the structuring skills of thinking and knowledge and the assessment among colleagues, the students, organized in groups, will be responsible for examining specific topics that will be presented and discussed with other students in flipped/blended classroom modality.
Lectures are given in Italian
This is a limited number access course. The mandatory procedure for access request is here http://www.ccsbio.polimi.it/?page_id=27
Final exam: group reports on the practical laboratories and an individual written test